No Voting Rights for Cambodians Abroad

[geovalin]

Khmer Times/Jonathan Cox

Ry Sovanna is a Cambodian citizen, but in 2013 he was not able to exercise one of his most basic rights – voting. Mr. Sovanna was living in Thailand at the time, and there was no way for him to file his ballot in the Cambodian elections. As a scholarship student in Bangkok with a heavy course load, he couldn’t make the trip back home to cast his vote.

“I did not have a chance to vote...because based on Cambodia’s law there is no voting abroad,” he said. “I’m just an ordinary citizen. I just want to vote.”

Mr. Sovanna, who has since returned to Phnom Penh, was just one of roughly one million Cambodians who live outside the country. Unless they come back to Cambodia during the election, under current laws these citizens do not have any way to participate in elections. There are no polling stations abroad, and there is no way to file votes by mail.

read more: http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16892/no-voting-rights-for-cambodians-abroad/

[honcho]

of course not, how can they get their stamp on their hand for voting like good children when they are abroad?????